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Bless You 1000 times, 1,000,000 times - Version: 1.0.3, 3/16/2007 04:49PM PST
(1 of 1 users found this comment useful)
RachelZ3
It would take too long to spell out the troubles I was having, bottom line I lost my Mail.app emails after upgrading to Tiger. Rebuild just lost MORE email. No help from anywhere possible, no replies to posts in Apple discussions. I found this fabulous article:
http://www.macworld.com/weblogs/mac911/2005/11/archiveemlx/
In case that link fails, here's the points from the article:
With earlier versions of Mail, an mbox file contained the entire contents of a particular mailbox—all the messages in your primary account’s Inbox, for example. Mail 2.0 works differently in that it stores messages individually as .emlx files within a Messages folder within a .mbox folder (purportedly this change was made so Spotlight could index the contents of Mail messages)....
The trick then is converting the .emlx files to a format that can be read by another email client. I’ve managed to find a way to do just that with a copy of CosmicSoft’s donation-ware emlx to mbox Converter.
It works like this: Launch emlx to mbox Converter and then launch Mail 2.0. In Mail 2.0 select a mailbox you want to archive and drag it to the Desktop to create a .mbox folder. (Alternatively you can create a new folder in Mail 2.0, toss into it any messages you want to archive, and drag that folder to the Desktop to create the .mbox folder.) Switch to the Finder, open the .mbox folder and then open the Messages folder within to reveal the .emlx files. Select all of the .emlx files and drag them into emlx to mbox Converter’s window to add the files to the utility’s list. Click Save mbox.
This clumps the many .emlx files together into a single, old-fashioned mbox file (found within a .mbox folder created by the utility) that can be read by most email clients. Name the .mbox folder and save it to the Desktop. Open that .mbox folder in the Finder and rename the .mbox file within to something catchy like “Archived.”
With emlx converter I managed to convert the new mail in Tiger mail into useful mbox form and then import the new mail converted mboxes back into the old Panther Mail app.
At least my mail is whole again, and I can go to another email program, and I have a back up of all my mail while I go figure out a new mail program to use in Tiger.
I was up poop creek for 5 days until I found this converter and that article (and my Panter mail back up).
I came back to VT to post this information and to make sure the money I am donating gets to the developer. Bless you. Bless you. A thousand times, a million times.
http://www.macworld.com/weblogs/mac911/2005/11/archiveemlx/
In case that link fails, here's the points from the article:
With earlier versions of Mail, an mbox file contained the entire contents of a particular mailbox—all the messages in your primary account’s Inbox, for example. Mail 2.0 works differently in that it stores messages individually as .emlx files within a Messages folder within a .mbox folder (purportedly this change was made so Spotlight could index the contents of Mail messages)....
The trick then is converting the .emlx files to a format that can be read by another email client. I’ve managed to find a way to do just that with a copy of CosmicSoft’s donation-ware emlx to mbox Converter.
It works like this: Launch emlx to mbox Converter and then launch Mail 2.0. In Mail 2.0 select a mailbox you want to archive and drag it to the Desktop to create a .mbox folder. (Alternatively you can create a new folder in Mail 2.0, toss into it any messages you want to archive, and drag that folder to the Desktop to create the .mbox folder.) Switch to the Finder, open the .mbox folder and then open the Messages folder within to reveal the .emlx files. Select all of the .emlx files and drag them into emlx to mbox Converter’s window to add the files to the utility’s list. Click Save mbox.
This clumps the many .emlx files together into a single, old-fashioned mbox file (found within a .mbox folder created by the utility) that can be read by most email clients. Name the .mbox folder and save it to the Desktop. Open that .mbox folder in the Finder and rename the .mbox file within to something catchy like “Archived.”
With emlx converter I managed to convert the new mail in Tiger mail into useful mbox form and then import the new mail converted mboxes back into the old Panther Mail app.
At least my mail is whole again, and I can go to another email program, and I have a back up of all my mail while I go figure out a new mail program to use in Tiger.
I was up poop creek for 5 days until I found this converter and that article (and my Panter mail back up).
I came back to VT to post this information and to make sure the money I am donating gets to the developer. Bless you. Bless you. A thousand times, a million times.
Bless You 1000 times, 1,000,000 times - Version: 1.0.3, 3/16/2007 04:41PM PST
(1 of 1 users found this comment useful)
RachelZ3
It would take too long to spell out the troubles I was having, bottom line I lost my Mail.app emails after upgrading to Tiger. Rebuild just lost MORE email.
No help from anywhere possible, no replies to posts in Apple discussions.
I found this fabulous article:
http://www.macworld.com/weblogs/mac911/2005/11/archiveemlx/
In case that link fails, here's the point:
With earlier versions of Mail, an mbox file contained the entire contents of a particular mailbox—all the messages in your primary account’s Inbox, for example. Mail 2.0 works differently in that it stores messages individually as .emlx files within a Messages folder within a .mbox folder (purportedly this change was made so Spotlight could index the contents of Mail messages)....
The trick then is converting the .emlx files to a format that can be read by another email client. I’ve managed to find a way to do just that with a copy of CosmicSoft’s donation-ware emlx to mbox Converter. It works like this:
Launch emlx to mbox Converter and then launch Mail 2.0.
In Mail 2.0 select a mailbox you want to archive and drag it to the Desktop to create a .mbox folder. (Alternatively you can create a new folder in Mail 2.0, toss into it any messages you want to archive, and drag that folder to the Desktop to create the .mbox folder.)
Switch to the Finder, open the .mbox folder and then open the Messages folder within to reveal the .emlx files. Select all of the .emlx files and drag them into emlx to mbox Converter’s window to add the files to the utility’s list. Click Save mbox.
This clumps the many .emlx files together into a single, old-fashioned mbox file (found within a .mbox folder created by the utility) that can be read by most email clients. Name the .mbox folder and save it to the Desktop. Open that .mbox folder in the Finder and rename the .mbox file within to something catchy like “Archived.”
With emlx converter I managed to convert the new mail in Tiger mail into useful mbox form and then bring the new mail back into the old Panther Mail app. At least my mail is whole again, and I can go to another email program, and I have a back up of all my mail while I go figure out a new mail program to use in Tiger.
I was up poop creek for 5 days until I found this converter and that article. I came back to VT to post this information and to make sure the money I am donating gets to the developer. Bless you. Bless you. A thousand times, a million times.
Mertiegirl